Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Iran - Softcover

Tragert, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592571417 ISBN 13: 9781592571413

Publisher: Alpha, 2004

Synopsis

It was once known as Persia, a beautiful, mysterious land. The nation now known as Iran leaped to contemporary Americans' attention with the 1979 Islamic revolution that deposed the Shah and made hostages of the personnel at the American embassy in the capital, Tehran. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Iran, from Joseph Tragert, author of Alpha's hugely successful The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Iraq, explores the country's origins, from its long and turbulent beginnings as ancient Persia and its transformation into modern Iran. The author covers the rise of the Ayatollahs and Islamic fundamentalism; the 1979 revolution and the subsequent hostage crisis; the Iran-Iraq war; the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration; Iran's sponsorship of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas; and how evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program affects its relationship with the world in general-both now and in the years to come. With a younger generation now chafing under the hard-line mullahs' social repression, the situation grows more volatile each day. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Iran will be a detailed, comprehensive, and unbiased overview of this complex but often fascinating land.

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About the Author

Joseph Tragert is currently the principal and co-founder of the Massachusetts-based North Ridge Associates, an international consulting firm. Prior to this, he was a senior associate at KPMG Peat Marwick, where he specialized in Islamic relations and developed the company's body of knowledge on the politics, economics, and the history of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. In addition to being the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Iraq, he is currently working co-writing The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding North Korea (coming in early 2004), which may make him the only living writer to have written books on each country in President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil."

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpha
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592571417
• ISBN 13: 9781592571413
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352